Just got rejected by small company with feedback: "In your technical rounds, the pattern was that you had gaps in your approach the problem. You solved all of the problems, so speed wasn't the issue, but the hiring committee just felt there were some technical gaps." When I asked for what the gaps were specifically, recruiter said they didn't know. There was one question where I didn't know about a few language primitives to solve the question easier, but I felt I was honest about not knowing about it and tried my best to collaborate on the spot with the interviewer to learn it. I still got to a working solution and explained my thinking and pros and cons. The other question I felt like it went without a hitch except some small dyslexic mistakes. Can anyone help me (on others with similar feedback) get any actionable things to take away from such feedback? TC: 525K; not at Salesforce any more
You make more than half million. Why go through coding interview grinding?
half million this year, zero a few years from now if I don't keep sharp :)...probably not that extreme, but ever since I went through a pay decrease event in the great recession, I test the market every 6-12 months
That’s why many companies don’t provide feedback
Gaps? But you solved both problems... that's so stupid
Yeh, I asked if I was too slow and they said that wasn't the problem. The whole not sharing good feedback with candidates is definitely stupid :)
That’s why you do mock interviews
Sounds like some kind of discrimination.
If you are a experienced hire and interviewers saw technical knowledge gaps(fundamental primitives ) they may red flag especially if multiple interviewers see the same
Isn't that testing rote knowledge? Experienced candidates might have forgotten seldom used primitives. I suspect that might be the case with me; I wasn't aware of language concurrency primitive, despite having shipped tons of concurrent software successfully in that language. The primitive is implemented by a common scheduling library that I used and said I would use in the interview. However that was only one of the rounds :(
Probably they found a better candidate meanwhile (?)